Separatist leader meets Abdul Basit in New Delhi

Amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan after the recent surgical strikes by the Indian Army across the Line of Control (LoC), Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit met Hurriyat Conference senior leader Aga Syed Hasan Almosvi Alsafvi in New Delhi today.

Amid escalating tensions between India and Pakistan after the recent surgical strikes by the Indian Army across the Line of Control (LoC), Pakistan High Commissioner to India Abdul Basit met Hurriyat Conference senior leader Aga Syed Hasan Almosvi Alsafvi in New Delhi today.

The Pakistan envoy met the separatist at the Pakistan High Commissioner premises in the National Capital.

The visit comes amidst the Kashmir shutdown where separatist leaders like Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Yasin Malik, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, Shabir Shah, Masarat Alam are under house arrest and Aasiya Andrabi was arrested for inciting violence in the Valley.

The Indian Army's surgical strikes came days after the terror attack on an army camp in Uri town of Jammu and Kashmir that killed 19 soldiers.